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About Linda Gartz

Six-time Emmy-honored Linda Gartz is a documentary producer, author, blogger, educator, and archivist. Her documentaries and TV productions have been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and Investigation Discovery, syndicated nationwide. Her educational videos include Begin with Love, hosted by Oprah Winfrey, and Grandparenting, hosted by Maya Angelou. Gartz’s articles and essays have been published in literary journals, online, and in local and national magazines and newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune. Born in Chicago, she studied at both Northwestern and the University of Munich, and has lived most of her adult life in Evanston, IL. She earned her B.A. and M.A.T. degrees from Northwestern.

Trench Mouth!

Army Air Corps Radio School sleeve patch-given to each student at the Army Technical School, Sioux Falls, SD Trench Mouth. The word conjures up images of soldiers languishing in World War I rat-infested trenches. But this disease, an [...]

Linda Gartz2019-07-08T18:33:28-05:00April 1st, 2013|Letters of a WWII Airman, WWII|

Everybody jittery

Boys are disappearing, this neighbor reports, heading to war. No wonder everyone is "jittery."

Linda Gartz2019-07-08T18:30:32-05:00March 29th, 2013|Letters of a WWII Airman, World War II|

The girl’s a grease monkey now!

Bethel Ev. Lutheran ChurchWest End and Keeler Boys were disappearing from neighborhoods in the 1940s as if aliens had come and snatched them away, and in this letter we get a first-hand view of the effect on the [...]

Linda Gartz2019-07-08T18:27:33-05:00March 26th, 2013|Letters of a WWII Airman, World War II|

Let’s review the rules

Do you have a sibling who is, well, a bit of a know-it-all? Maybe an older sibling??? Who can’t seem to help chastising, advising, informing, correcting? Does it drive you crazy, even you though you love this person? Well, you’ll [...]

Linda Gartz2019-07-08T18:26:18-05:00March 19th, 2013|Letters of a WWII Airman, World War II|

Morse Code!

Freezing temperatures, streets slick as glass, timed Morse code tests. The pressure is on this 18-year-old kid to concentrate harder than he's ever had to before. A lots at stake. This letter from Private Frank Gartz shows us the world [...]

Linda Gartz2019-07-08T18:24:45-05:00March 16th, 2013|Letters of a WWII Airman, World War II|

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